Update: Full review: Ecoflow wave 2 isn't worth the money or is it? Sold by ecoflow and amazon
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- See all links below for the build: I ran this day after day on a 2200 watt power station and solar and on high day after day and still couldn't get it to cool down the ford. I ran it on max and added fans and still it only cools down you not the environment.
5 inch Exhaust Hose:
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5.9 inch hose:
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Stainless Steel Hose Clamp:
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Solar panels:
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Solar Panel Extension Cable:
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Ecoflow wave 2:
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Amazon:
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Please Note, Ecoflow wave 2 was advertised as a van life air conditioner and heater so to put it outside of the vehicle would defeat the purpose because someone would just steal it. They've made it clear you can use this both in your vehicle and out of your vehicle and therefore it fell short to meet those Specifications.
Then why does the Ecoflow wave 2 car kit by Ecoflow have 2 round vent holes for the window?
Try insulating those two vent hoses with a few inches of foam pipe insulation before giving up. I know a couple of people that have them and one thinks it's great and the other hates it. The one that loves it insulated those two hoses and noticed a pretty big difference. Thanks for your honest opinion!
this is true. I have been using the wave to in my van for the past few months. It will not cool the space if the outside temperature is over 90°. Do not believe the advertisements. Even with a lot of insulation, they wave to is insufficient to cool a space. It will cool you. But not the space around you.
Wait... just wait... The blackout curtains aren't doing much of anything. They are INSIDE the passenger compartment of your minivan, therefore when the sun heats them up, the inside of the van heats up. You also have a bunch of fans running, which all generate heat. Then you have a bunch of other electronics heating up your area in the back. I'm just saying, that little AC unit was fighting an uphill battle, and the things you did to help it were never going to help it.
I have the Wave2 in a semi truck and it works great. I cut an exhaust hole (using the styrofoam template provided) in a piece of 1/4 plywood that fit my side window. It looks like venting exhaust and intake through your vans slightly cracked open windows will let hot air circulate back into your van. I also have several 18 v cordless fans to help circulate the air. Parking in the shade also helps.
Hi there, q, did you vent both intake and exhaust to the outside? Ty
I am using one in my house in my small bedroom which is just under 150 sqf. Its works great! I only need to use eco or sleep mode and low fan. Temp out the tube is sometimes 44 degrees. Drops the temps into the 60s in the room in very little time. Its definitely in the 5000btu size range. And is dead quiet compared to any 5000btu window unit ive ever used. Both vent tubes are accessing outdoor air through a window.
I'm thinking the structure and installation in the walls is why it's working for you. All this metal and steel that a vehicle has is probably why it's not working for me.
Hi Ronald, I just bought a Wave 2 and have been testing it out. On AC mode, mine makes a little noise other than just the blowing air. Not super loud but noticeable mostly on the lower blower setting. I have heard the same noise from window AC units before so maybe it's normal (but those could be old units with issues). From what I gather, it may be just normal sound of refrigerant passing through the evaporator. If you put your ear up to the front filter area of your unit, do you hear that sound too? Just wondering if something happened in shipping or this is just normal to a unit where you are close to the evaporator. Any info is appreciated.
@@slickness8892 yes mine makes a slit buzz like noise too but only when working hard and the temp out the exhaust is 45 degrees. Since its like a mini split its normal. I have two media u shaped window ACs that are mini split designs with inverter compressor and they also make noise sometimes but its not loud... Compared to the older designs. The Wave 2 is very quiet even when there is a slight buzz and the room is dead quiet.
Exhaust outside, but leave your intake inside. Needs to be on Max mode to cool down a space. Another issue is you’re not in the shade. If you park in shade and use external solar panels it would help.
Doesn’t make sense man, the intake would be sucking the air from the cabin outside
@@iinrefna I agree with you 👍
In the same situation in my truck
Put shades on every window I insulated the hoses so the heat wouldn't come out but definitely need to be directly in front of it for it to have any effect
Eco wave in metal box versus the sun..the fight was never fair...but you did a good job trying to help it win..
Thank you, I have an idea I will try next week. If it works I will post a video..
If you buy that insulation wrap for the exhaust and cover the pipe with it. And for your intake you will notice a night and day difference there is enough are gaps in the vehicle to replace fresh cabin air
Have you tried it at night while sleeping? Or in the shade instead of hot sun? Most vans will need 10,000 to 15,000 BTU of cooling during the day to keep you cool, and the Wave 2 is only 5,000 BTU. I think you'll find it performs well at night, especially if you run the van dash a/c for a bit to cool down before you settle in for the night. Don't give up, yet.
No because of the solar and the fact they stated it will cool down the area it's in 10% to 20%... I don't need an ac for the shade or running the ford's ac. But thanks for your insight 👍
This was my reason for purchasing. In the summer when the sun goes down and it's still 75-80 and humid outside, this will work for sleeping in my van camping setup. I have solar to charge the power bank during the day but won't be hanging out in the vehicle at that time (unless running the vehicle AC). The 5,000 BTU of the Wave 2 is not going to cool a vehicle in the hot sun (unless maybe super insulated small space).
@@ACUmancavePro tip, it looks like the blackout curtains you installed might be black facing outwards. Would highly recommend swapping those around so the white faces out as it won’t absorb heat nearly as much.
Also, you can get ceramic tint for the windows that will help a lot, and if you don’t want to tint them to a dark level (say front windshield for example) you can get transparency at 80% (which you honestly might not even be able to tell they were tinted at such a high level).
The combination of those two would lower the temp down to 80 degrees at least I’d bet from what’s in the vid!
Thank you. Your review really resonated with me. The buyers remorse, and re-evaluation of what's good about it. I'm also smitten with the free electricity aspect of the Solar and power banks. (next video comment) had it lined up for 1600 prime day, but even that, is too much for too little. Wish I saw your video 12 hours earlier. Followed.
I'm glad to have helped.. If you have it then keep it facing you but if you can return it, do that instead. Plus I will say out of all I've down I love the free electricity 🙂
Yeah 😂, the wife thinks I'm nuts. "Babe, we're making 200 watts!" oh yeah? That's nice.
@@mikegyro 🤣 Every time I look at my bluetti app and see the free electricity I yell out 'more free power babe' 😂
😂 They just don't seem to care. Smh
@@mikegyro 🤣 nope lol
Not sure how you have it set up but it doesn’t look like I do and it works great in my motorhome and Honda Element.
Good for you 👍
Running it out of your windows, like that is a great idea, except for they probably don’t open up wide enough for that thing to run efficiently. It needs more airflow than it looks like it’s getting the way you have it set up. Even if you put a bigger, portable AC unit in there and set it up like that, it’s probably not gonna work very well.
Thank you for that input, I did buy a fan that goes in the tube to increase air flow. I will try that out but it does get good air flow when it's moving but as you saw it parked, doesn't flow as good... Good eye 🙂
The problem i see is with the windows open like that the van isn't sealed up so you can't contain any cool air. Also the smaller hot air vent is blowing against the window and that hot air just bounces right back into the van. Some goes out the slots but you really need all of it to go out.
Use the foam vent kit that came with the Wave 2 and vent it out one of the door windows and add more foam to seal up the rest of the window opening. Also park in the shade.
I thought that too but there is no restriction so technically it can draw air without interruption. It can draw air from top, bottom and side.
@@ACUmancave I hope it works better for you! I would love this product to actually work well enough to do the trick. I would also like to thank you for reviewing items like this and giving us a heads up before e we pull the trigger on items such as this ourselves!
@@alexpuskas691 Your welcome and It failed me 😥, no matter what I did , it just wasn't good enough. This wave 2 ac is a personal ac, meant for blowing on you (in your face) , not meant for in your vehicle, even though they say it is.
It can work in an insulated room or apartment but who wants a 1600/2200 dollar for a 5000 btu ac 🤔 when a window unit is like $300
Hi,
some reviewers opted to NOT connect the intake hose essentially avoiding pulling in hot air from outside and making the WAVE 2 more efficient by recirculating the cooled air in the van or room. What are your thoughts on this? Keep in mind that in hot places like Nevada the ambient air itself is warm and not just the sun.
It has been said to me that there are 2 intakes , one in the rear for just the ac system and one in the front. The one in the rear is for the motor and the front is for the cold air return. If this is so, by taking out the rear intake hose you would be pulling out all the air around the unit given you limited breathing air. I'm still not sure how that all works together but there does seem to be 2 intakes .
By removing the intake hose, you are essentially turning the ac into a single hose unit.
IMHO that’s complete crazy talk. They’re doing the opposite of what they want. The whole point of dual hoses is to avoid sucking in the cold air you just created, and exhausting it outside. It also creates a vacuum effect in your car which then sucks dust and dirt into your car through every exposed hole in the body.
A dual hose AC with both hoses piped outside separately is the proper way to do it. It pulls air in from outside (whether already hot or otherwise), converts it to cold air that gets dumped into your car, while exhausting the hot waste air outside.
@@M4K9G22 Makes sense. thanks
@@alman3071 using a single hose may feel colder when you’re directly in front of the ac vents, but the machine is removing the cold air from the entire space you’re trying to cool, at a rate almost as fast as its pumping out cold air.
Also keep in mind that if your batteries/power source/inverter is in the same space you’re trying to cool, those things are radiating heat, especially when theres a large draw on them. The exhaust hose is also radiating heat, so its best to wrap it in duct insulation.
@@M4K9G22 Thanks, your points make perfect sense. So is keeping the Wave2 outside in the heat and sun and just have the outlet hose in the cooling space the best option? Or is that going to be tough on the Wave2 ?
Good review. Id probably stick this whole thing outside insime kind of dyi enclosure or a generator cover even a cheap cooler bag you cut holes out of. so there is no heat source inside the van. I use a portable ac for one room and insulate the hose with reflectix insulation. Thise hoses get to almost 100 is the temp i took. Of course it depends on your situation.
Yeah this unit can only cool down the person not the aera so even if it was out side it still wouldn't work like a Freon based unit.
Thank you for an honest review. I have spend many evenings looking at reviews. I’d say, out of 30+ reviews, only 2 were negative. The other guy that had a negative review was all over the place and his review wasn’t well designed. I’m guessing, he was upset over spending 2k for basically a brick since it wasn’t able to meet his needs. Yours was a lot more objective and best of all, you didn’t waste a lot of my time regurgitating the manual.
You saved me 2k. Thank you.
Thanks bud 👍
Your problem is the exhaust tube is set too long and isn't insulated. An incredible amount of heat radiates through the thin tubing material. You need to make it as short as possible and wrap insulation around it. I had this problem with a portable air conditioner in my bedroom. Without doing these steps, it completely failed to cool my small room even though it was 10000 btus. Once I did that, it cooled well. Also you should cut out an insulation material that fits perfectly flush against all your doors glass to keep more heat out of the SUV.
thank you
shouldn’t the intake be inside drawing cooler air and recirculating it and the exhaust be completely unblocked?
You would think but no that's not how this unit is built.
The reason why we don't do this, is to not create a negative pressure. So if you take air inside and send it outside, it mean the air inside you took out will need to be replaced... So the air outside around the car will be driven back inside via it shortest path, killing your efficient as that air is most definitely not cold.
@@mochouinard so it doesn’t recycle the cold air
I would think that insulating the tubing would keep them from reheating what you are trying to cool down. They don't look like they could hold much of the heat being expelled in the original form that they come in and would just radiate the whole time. Just a thought.
I didn't find them to be as hot as people said they were. The system just couldn't cool down the area.
Please do another test video after you have insulated the vent tubes. It should make a difference.
GMC explorer the Eco Wave 2 works fantastic. Especially when hooked up properly.❤
Thanks for the heads up
What is the coolest temp you think this unit can output in an 80 degree outside air environment? I'm asking because some users are posting the Wave 2 is putting out a/c in the 40 degree range, but maybe that's because their outside air is already cool.
Maybe your unit's refrigerant is under-charged for you to only be getting air in the 60's.
Opinions? Real-world data? Thanks!!
Edit:. Good video by the way. Thank you for the real-world review.
Your welcome and my unit as you see in other videos ran on max on sola power with it's battery as backup.
It never dropped the temp in the truck and the air below no lower the I believe 64 degree's
Finally a honest review on RUclips, thanks
Your most welcome
Agree 100 percent
Can’t u use the truck ac to cool the area down for 20mins and then kick in the eco?
Sure
The real reviews are starting to pop up now. Unfortunately too late. I've got mine and yeah, it's nowhere near what's being claimed. I got mine to keep my dogs cool in the van should I go shopping on a hot day (30 min to max 1hr) It's can't even keep a cooled van cool, not even for 20 minutes. Glad I tested it while I was in the van with them. And it's a smallish van (transporter size). I'm looking at the other options it has: it's mobile. It blows hot+cold air on a smal area so you could use it to fall asleep on a cool/hot night when mobile and on grid. It's not as heavy as a regular size airco+ battery pack. And it's not very power hungry using the grid. It's rather small compared to regular units.
Thanks for your honest/realistic review
Your welcome and thanks for sharing.
I'm astounded with all the other reviews supporting the wave 2. They must live up north or some place where it doesn't get 100F blazing hot weather. The van baked in the heat won't fair well with any portable units unfortunately.
I wanted to buy one for my boat for the dogs but I think it's too expensive and not enough powerful
Love your video, but wave2 It’s heavy to carry with no great handles for me.
I agree and thanks
That's a shame and they no it nothing like a rolling portable ac only 3 or4 hundred dollars and ice cold the hole area i love the Minnie split backpack
Try the fresh air intake back into the van
It'll recycle the air in the van which is cooler than outside and to make the inside cooler that cooling system will recycle itself and make the pump
Wave 2 air conditioner is not worth the money... Did not cool my van only 4 degrees. Sad
It barely cools a small 2 person tent and the noise vs the small cooling power isn’t worth the trouble
Thank you! You are 100% right! just spent $2K for this bs
Yeah, send it back...
U prob have 0 insulation as well
It isn’t worth it. Had 2 with problems. Cooling power is not adequate.
It isn't worth the money! Wave 2 doesn't work as what its ads said. Way too overrated. My friend bought one and returned it back. And she is still waiting for her money back.
Really? I go a refund the day after they received it. She should email them like I did. They were great..
I bought the wave 1 and it was a disappointment. I bought the wave 2 and didn't even open the box once the reviews came in. Returned it asap.
I ended up buying a midea portable 12000 btu duo vent system for my van and ran it under 2 ecoflow delta pro I got for 2k each. Works way better. And I'll keep the wave 1 for nights when I'm conservative on energy just trying to sleep.
Smart to return it, yes I'm waiting on my refund now. I am using the ac 500 btu and it feels great. I would try a 10,000 btu nut don't my bluetti will handle it